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polishgenius

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  1. Looks like Lindsay Hoyle has properly stacked it today.
  2. I'm not at all familiar with Borderlands but as a film that looks like it could have been good but the writing, just based on the trailer, seems execrable. So many clunky lines and deliveries.
  3. Penny's Big Breakaway shadowdropped today on the Switch partner showcase. Nice. Hope it gets good reviews, because it looks banging. The Sonic Mania team flexing that they can do a high-pace platformer in 3D. Also announced: Pentiment coming on Switch tomorrow.
  4. My brother showed me this goal today. Why had I never seen it before. That's a Seedorf-vs-Atleti level ATG goal.
  5. Yeah, but you didn't say 'Churchill'. You said 'you'. In English, in that kind of context, that's a generalisation which means 'anyone who does it'. If you didn't want to say that the Holodomor was basically a footnote and bringing it up comes off as petty... well, that's on you. Because you did say that.
  6. Hey, you're the one who said this was a petty footnote.
  7. I don't know, but I'd have a lot more respect for the way Churchill handled it if that had been the basis, rather than bartering the future of countries based on what was most important to himself and Stalin, rather than what those countries wanted.
  8. Unless you think I'm one of those four writers, I'm not sure of the relevance. You tried to daisy-chain reasonable arguments to a bigoted crackpot and paint them the same, and you faceplanted doing it.
  9. I think this is fair to a point -which is also why I didn't make a big fuss about it immediately on seeing the news, only after ToL's questioning of people in this thread dicking around after he died. But I think you can focus on the simpler story and still have the more complicated one in mind. Like obviously us on this board aren't going to influence who the resistance is going to focus around now he's gone. But somebody somewhere should be thinking about that and whether maybe it can be someone who isn't just as nationalist as Putin, just less convinced that war is the way for Russia to do it. Because that's... better than Putin, sure, but why not aim higher?
  10. Yeah, with all due respect, piss off. I criticised Churchill for some very specific things did in response to an argument that he was 'clear-sighted' on foreign policy. Comparing me to a holocaust denier for that is not just beyond dishonest: given that my argument was made on the basis of being Polish and you might, if you'd spared a thought for what was actually being said and who was saying it and not playing clownish point-scoring, have considered that I had family in concentration camps and trying that on is insanely offensive.
  11. Churchill gave Poland (which didn't want to be communist) to Stalin in return for stabbing the leftist anti-fascist rebels he'd been allied with in Greece (who did want to be communist) in the back to keep Greece 'Western'. He was right on the Nazis, obviously, but his 'clear-sightedness' can fuck off. Of course, you don't have to take my word for it: ask the Kenyans, the Irish, or the way his WW1 idea inflicted such a horrible mess at Gallipoli that Australia and Turkey- the two armies opposing each other- have had friendly relations ever since on the basis of 'fuck that cunt'. I've also seen it sense that prior to WW2 breaking out Churchill was seen as such a crank that him hating the Nazis made some in parliament more likely to think their threat was exaggerated. I dunno if that's true, though.
  12. Support for same-sex marriage is obviously good, but it doesn't seem to have been like a major position for him? The rest, I dunno if it definitely counts as a moral position or if it was about him getting into power, especially when at least some of his anti-corruption position was also based on white-russian nationalism (stop funding the outlying, non-ethnic-Russian, regions because they're corrupt). Like I say, someone can be brave and important and still not a good guy. We can remember him, but also maybe consider why the main opponent to Putin was a guy like that. Not that we can really do anything about it, but I don't think it's helpful to flatten the discussion into 'Putin opponent- must be decent' either.
  13. I get that (1) you can be a bad person and still be making a brave, important stand and (2) Navalny was an important symbolic presence against Putin both in Russia and beyond so I understand the outpouring over his death, but I wish we wouldn't fall over ourselves to lionise a racist Russian nationalist whose main claim to morality was that maybe he wouldn't actually have invaded Ukraine (but he still used 'we are one nation' rhetoric back in the day about Ukraine and Belarus).
  14. Watched Sisu. It's a silly, violent movie made with a surprising amount of... polish is the wrong word, but craft. A dumb movie smartly made (though not particularly smartly written). Particularly impressed by the sound design for some reason. As other said in previous threads, it also bears no relation to John Wick despite using its name in the trailers- way more inspired by old-school, pulpy schlocky, action movies. Though I do think that him being nicknamed after a Russian folkloric figure is not a coincidence (and at least in this film they understood what the name meant).
  15. I haven't seen King Richard and probably never will tbh, but Will Smith playing a weirdo obsessive dad who's too intent on his kids being famous is way too on the nose.
  16. Yeah, that's fair. Although I think it's fair to say that they are different templates to HoD and many of the stories it inspires, too.
  17. Always amused me that RED came out in the same year as the A-Team, Expendables, and The Losers, with all 4 having very similar premises (Expendables being a bit different in delivery of course). Shame The Losers got a bit lost in the churn of all that, fun film with an insanely cool cast.
  18. They absolutely were, that's why Samuel Jackson was in it and RDJ was in the Hulk movie. Also there was a change of CEO shortly after Marvel Studios was founded (after Iron Man and Hulk were started but before they came out) supposedly partly because Avi Arad didn't believe in that plan. That said, in skimming wikipedia for the dates and details. Favreau specifically said he didn't want to cast a big star and that the superhero would carry the movie commercially, not the actor - so it is a later-added myth that RDJ was a risk in that sense.
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